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PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Os-
car Pistorius was sentenced to six years
in prison Wednesday for the murder
of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, with
the judge who decided the punishment
calling the double-amputee Olympian a
“fallen hero.”
South Africa’s minimum sentence for
murder is 15 years but the judge said
“substantial and compelling circum-
stances” existed to give Pistorius a less-
er sentence for shooting Steenkamp at
his home in 2013.
Judge Thokozile Masipa described
Pistorius as a “good candidate for reha-
bilitation.”
Pistorius was asked to stand and face
Judge Masipa as she announced his
sentence in a courtroom in the South
African capital, Pretoria. He was calm
ater the sentence was announced, em-
bracing his aunt and tearful sister be-
fore being led down a courtroom stair-
case to a holding cell.
Steenkamp’s parents, Barry and June,
were also present in the courtroom,
which was packed with relatives of
both Pistorius and Steenkamp, jour-
nalists and other observers.
Muslims Come to Grips
with a Bloody Ramadan
BEIRUT (AP) — As Muslims around
the world celebrate the end of Ramadan,
many are struggling to comprehend a
wave of attacks that killed 350 people
across several continents during the
holy month and made urgent the ques-
tion of what drives the militants to ever
more spectacular violence against ci-
vilians.
The diverse, high-proile targets —
including one that struck the heart of
Islam in the month’s inal days — un-
derline the warnings of many experts:
the Islamic State group, especially
when on the defensive at home, will
metastasize far beyond its theater of
operations.
The extremist group has always
sought attention and recruits through
brazen terrorism.
The projection of daring, operation-
al competence and utter disregard for
the norms of its enemies has proven a
winning strategy among its disenfran-
chised and angry followers around the
Muslim world.
But having lost the key city of Fallu-
jah in recent weeks, capping a series of
setbacks in Iraq, the group is pushing
to project strength while also diverting
attention from its battleield humilia-
tions.
“ISIS is waging an existential ight,”
said Fawaz Gerges, a London-based
scholar of jihadi groups, using an alter-
nate acronym for the militant group.
“The future of the Islamic State is on
the line, and it is trying to maximize
the cost for its adversaries and also
to inspire this particular segment of
young men and women who subscribe
to its ideology.”
Britain, and Blair, Await
Iraq War Inquiry
LONDON (AP) — The oicial inquiry
into Britain’s role in the Iraq War is re-
leasing its indings Wednesday, more
than seven years ater hearings began
and 13 years on from the 2003 U.S.-led
invasion.
Retired
civ-
il servant John
Chilcot is due
to publish his
2.6-million-word
report on a divi-
sive conlict that
— by the time
British combat
forces let in
2009 — had
killed 179 British
troops, almost
4,500
Ameri-
can personnel Oscar Pistorius, center, leaves the High Court in Pretoria, South Africa,
and more than Wednesday, July 6, 2016. Pistorius has been sentenced to six years in prison for
the murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
100,000 Iraqis.
Iraq descended
into sectarian strife ater the occupiers Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has
dismantled Saddam Hussein’s govern- praised former Iraqi President Saddam
ment and military apparatus, unleash- Hussein’s ruthlessness.
“Saddam Hussein was a bad guy,
ing chaos that helped give rise to the
right?
... But you know what he did
Islamic State group.
well?
He
killed terrorists. He did that
The war has overshadowed the legacy
so
good,”
Trump told a campaign rally
of Britain’s then-leader, Prime Minis-
Tuesday
night
in Raleigh, North Caro-
ter Tony Blair.
lina.
His government has been accused of
“They didn’t read ‘em the rights, they
exaggerating intelligence about Sadd-
didn’t
talk. They were a terrorist, it was
am’s alleged weapons of mass destruc-
over.”
tion in order to build support for inva-
Trump has previously said the world
sion.
would
be “100 percent better” if dicta-
Blair — who declined to comment on
tors
like
Hussein and Libya’s Moam-
the report before publication — has
mar
Gadhai
were still in power.
always said his government did not in-
Prior
to
the
U.S. invasion, Iraq was
vent or distort intelligence.
listed by the U.S. as a state sponsor of
terrorism.
Trump praises Late Iraqi
Jake Sullivan, a Clinton senior pol-
icy
adviser, said Trump’s “praise for
Leader Saddam Hussein
brutal strongmen seemingly knows no
RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) — bounds.”
Presumptive Republican presidential
Sullivan said such comments “demon-
nominee Donald Trump, who frequent- strate how dangerous he would be as
ly criticizes U.S. foreign policy under Commander-in-Chief and how unwor-
President Barack Obama and former thy he is of the oice he seeks.”
MAXI LOSI/POOL PHOTO VIA AP
Oscar Pistorius Sentenced
to 6 Years in Prison
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